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The Ultimate Active Directory A ack Cheat Sheet: A Pentester's Field Guide 🛡 Mission: This guide is designed to be your comprehensive tactical eld manual for dissecting Active Directory environments. It meticulously integrates common techniques, tools, and commands in a phased approach, drawing from expert sources and aiming for exhaustive detail for penetration testers and security professionals. The Pentester's Code: Remember, this knowledge is potent. You're the professional responsible for wielding it. The mission is always ethical: to illuminate vulnerabilities, to test defenses, and ultimately, to help organizations bolster their security posture. This isn't just about "popping shells"; it's about providing actionable insights and driving real defensive improvements. Stay frosty, keep learning, and always operate with unwavering integrity and within the legal boundaries of your engagements.. "First Of All There Is No Writeup Or Sheet Sheet Can Contains Every Thing Our This Cheat Sheet Is The Notes And The Details So Far Till Now in My Journey In AD Wish You Like It" Ge ing to Know Active Directory: The Lay of the Land 🌍 Before we jump into the a acks, let's ensure we're all on the same page with some foundational AD concepts. Understanding these is key to knowing why certain a acks work. ● The Crown Jewels (ntds.dit): Think of this as the main AD treasure chest. It's a database le, usually hiding at C:\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit (though this path can be changed by an administrator). It holds everything about the domain: users, groups, computers, Group Policy information, and most importantly, those precious password hashes (NTLM hashes and Kerberos keys) for all domain accounts. Access to this le is paramount for an a acker aiming for full domain compromise. ● The Keepers of the Kingdom (Domain Controllers - DCs): These are the workhorse servers that host and replicate the AD database (ntds.dit). They handle who gets in (authentication via Kerberos Key Distribution Center - KDC, LDAP) and what they can do (authorization). Usually, multiple DCs exist for redundancy and load balancing. Since Windows 2000, AD uses a multi-master replication model, meaning (with some exceptions for speci c operations/FSMO roles) changes can be made on any writable DC and will replicate to others. ● The Kingdom Itself (Domain): This is your main boundary for administration, security, and policies in AD. It's a collection of all the users, computers, groups, Made By KARIM ASHRAF